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12-letter words containing p, l, a, c, t, e

  • pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
  • pedunculated — having a peduncle.
  • penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
  • pentateuchal — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
  • pentavalence — the condition of having a valency of five
  • perceptional — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • perceptually — of, relating to, or involving perception.
  • perichaetial — denoting the leaves in mosses that surround the archegonia and, later, the base of the sporophyte
  • perimetrical — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
  • permaculture — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
  • perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
  • pestological — relating to pestology
  • pharmacolite — hydrous calcium arsenate, 2CaO⋅As 2 O 5 ⋅5H 2 O, formed by natural alteration of mineral deposits containing arsenopyrite and arsenical ores of cobalt and silver.
  • phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
  • photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
  • phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • picnic table — table-and-bench structure used outdoors
  • pictorialize — to make pictorial; illustrate or represent with or as if with pictures.
  • picture rail — bar from which pictures are hung
  • pilot jacket — a type of leather jacket associated with U.S. Army pilots in World War II
  • pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
  • pitch a tale — to tell a story, usually of a fantastic nature
  • placentation — Anatomy, Zoology. the formation of a placenta. the manner of placement or construction of a placenta.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • placentology — the scientific study of the placenta
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plane ticket — entitlement to travel by aircraft
  • plant-cutter — any of several South American, passerine birds of the family Phytotomidae, superficially resembling grosbeaks but having serrated edges on the bill that aid in cutting leaves and other plant food.
  • plaster cast — any piece of sculpture reproduced in plaster of Paris.
  • platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
  • plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
  • play clothes — clothes that are suitable for playing in
  • poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
  • police state — a nation in which the police, especially a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy.
  • politicalize — to cause to be political; color with politics.
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • polynucleate — having many nuclei.
  • popocatepetl — a volcano in S central Mexico, SE of Mexico City. 17,887 feet (5450 meters).
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • pre-cultural — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
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